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Wordpress 4.3.1 on SME 8.1
devtay:
Hello All,
I'm back and I have a problem. Big surprise, right? Anyways, we have a developer that created a site for us in Wordpress so I needed to install Wordpress on our server. After the trouble with getting OsCommerce up, I decided to install Wordpress in an iBay. I used the following steps to install wordpress in an iBay:
--- Code: ---1. Create iBay
iBay: wp_ftav
Group: Everyone
User Access: Write = group, Read = everyone
Public Access: Entire Internet (no password)
Execution of Dynamic: Enabled
Force Secure: Disabled
2. accounts settings
PHP basedir
db accounts setprop wp_ftav PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/wp_ftav:/tmp
Symlinks
db accounts setprop wp_ftav AllowOverride all
db accounts setprop wp_ftav FollowSymLinks enabled
db accounts setprop wp_ftav Indexes disabled
signal-event ibay-modify wp_ftav
3. create database
mysqladmin create wp_ftav --default-character-set=utf8
4. create user
GRANT ALL ON wp_ftav.* TO 'wp_ftav'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passwordgoeshere';
5. download, unzip, and upload wordpress to /wp_ftav/html
6. chown -R admin:www * the files in /wp_ftav/html
7. Go to www.ftav.com/wp_ftav and follow install instructions.
Database and user wp_ftav
Password from above mysql grant statement.
Localhost.
Wordpress prefix wp_
created first user with admin permissions.
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I can access the site and I can make posts, change themes, etc. However, I can't install plugins automatically or update the software or plugins automatically. Wordpress wants ftp permissions to do this and I can't figure out the right way to make proftp work. I thought it was due to the FTP settings being wrong, but even when I manually edit the proftp.conf file to allow the connection, the process never completes. Could it be related to file permissions and ownership?
--- Code: ---[root@ html]# pwd
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/wp_ftav/html
[root@ html]# ls -la
total 192
drwxrwsr-x 5 root shared 4096 Oct 26 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 12 2014 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 www shared 252 Oct 26 16:36 .htaccess
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 418 Oct 26 15:55 index.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 19545 Oct 26 15:55 license.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 7360 Oct 26 15:55 readme.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 4951 Oct 26 15:55 wp-activate.php
drwxr-xr-x 9 admin www 4096 Oct 26 15:55 wp-admin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 271 Oct 26 15:55 wp-blog-header.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 5007 Oct 26 15:55 wp-comments-post.php
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www shared 3067 Oct 26 16:21 wp-config.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 2764 Oct 26 15:55 wp-config-sample.php
drwxr-xr-x 4 admin www 4096 Oct 26 15:55 wp-content
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 3286 Oct 26 15:55 wp-cron.php
drwxr-xr-x 12 admin www 4096 Oct 26 15:55 wp-includes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 2380 Oct 26 15:55 wp-links-opml.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 3123 Oct 26 15:55 wp-load.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 34669 Oct 26 15:55 wp-login.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 8252 Oct 26 15:55 wp-mail.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 11062 Oct 26 15:55 wp-settings.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 25124 Oct 26 15:55 wp-signup.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 4035 Oct 26 15:55 wp-trackback.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin www 3055 Oct 26 15:55 xmlrpc.php
[root@ html]#
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I have changed the access settings in the remote access panel in server manager and even installed the user remote panel. No matter the combinations or user names chosen, I can't get the process to complete. To add to the problems, the developer wants me to give him FTP access and phpmyadmin access to the database. My answer to that was no. They basically want to delete all of the files in the ibay, upload their set of files, delete all the tables from the database, and import a whole new set. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help is appreciated.
janet:
Have a good read of this
http://wiki.contribs.org/PHP
and this
http://wiki.contribs.org/Uploadtmpdir
devtay:
Perfect. This sounds exactly like what I need. I'll try tomorrow and post back. Thanks for the help Janet.
guest22:
Why would you not use the excellent wordpress contrib available?
devtay:
I originally did use it and it was a very good contrib. I wanted the latest version and couldn't get it to update either. I also didn't want wordpress installed in /opt. My developer also wants to overwrite the install. Much easier to do via an ibay.
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